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THE NATIONAL GAME.

BRouTHERs, Of the Detroits, still leads tht
League in home runs. ~;
In the International League only one man
II allowed on the coaching line. -a1s
EsTERQUrsT is the name Of phenomenal
twirler unearthed by Birmingham.
WARD, of the New Yorl<s, was the second
League player to make the Tooth actual hit OF
the season.
In recent twelve-inning game at water
bury, Conn, Brady put out ~, assisted ~
without an error at first base.
GAL" McK1NNoN, first baseman Of the
Pittsburg League Club, died recently at Bos-
ton, and was buried in Lowell.
WHEN the League leaders play among
themselves they play well, but when they
play the tail-enders they forget how to play.
BUFFALO, so far, is the most whitewashed
club in the International League, while Ham
lton has applied the coating oftener than
any other club
II there is anybody the Washingtons can
whip it is New York and Chicago. They
have won q majority Of the games played
with those clubs. ~
A MARKED feature Of the Chicagos In ac-;
ton is that they always play as II they en-
joyed it. No one ever sees them play hst-
less, don't-care game. ~
A AAATHEhAT1CIAN mas eSClmateQ Cnat Wne0
Chamberlain and Mullane, who are among
the swiftest pitchers in the country, throw the
ball with their utmost speed, 1t travels at the
rate of $50 feet per second.
VIcKsBURG, Miss, will make an apphca-s
tion for membership in the Southern League
at the November meeting. Galveston and
Houston, Texas, are also anxious to enter,
and will make an effort in that direction.
PRESIDENT Won DER AHE, Of the st. Louis
Club, says he is tired Of tue American Asso-
citation, and has asked that meeting be called
September 8 to act upon the withdrawal OF
his team. Should this club retire, it viii seek
to join the League. nthat case Indianapo-
Lis, it Is said, will be dropped from the latter
organization.
FEWER frst-class men have been developed
this year IN the minor Leagues than for two
years past. Good pitchers especially have.
failed to materialize. This is no doubt due
to the new rules, which put damper upon
the wild hop-skip-and- Jump style Of pitchers,
whose whole art consisted in firing q balfin
with all the speed allowed by the former rule.
Strategy counts now. ., yr1 S
VAN HALTREN, Of the Chicagos, was born
at ST. Louis, and is twenty-five years old but
he lived in Oakland, Cal, for seventeen years.
He started in as catcher, but by fuke tried
pitching in 1886, because the Greenhood & Mo-.
rams were in hole for q pitcher. he sue
ceeded at once. In California he pitched
plenty of games for five and six hits, once re-
tired three men on nine pitched balls, and has
struck out nineteen men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-17

The monument over the grave Of Israel
Putnam, the Revolutionary hero. at
Brookline, Conn.,, for which the State
appropriated $4,000, will be dedicated
June II, 1888, the anniversary of the
battle of Bunker Hill. The remains OF
General Putnam, in remarkable preser-
vition, were lately removed from the
Brookline cemetery to the new site, and
the old tombstone, with the inscription
prepared by President Timothy Dwight,
of Yale College, was deposited in the
rooms of the State Historical Society at
Hartford.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-17
LIFEI IN CHINA.
Some Interesting Items From Far
or Land.

IL
s, S. Popoff, Chinese Secretary to the Rus
s;an Legation in Peking, has just: published
pamphlet on the Chinese population in when nc
be saws it is 3S2, 900, as against 4l3,OoO,-
0OO in 1872 His statistics are derived from
Chinese official sources
plague of sudden death is raging at at Nan Nan.
TIn Tbey are eo apparently we'll in the morning and
deld in the afternoon. 49,,
over 1000 telegraph poles belonging to the M
Munanan Mngtaz District anu n. hWelcno~ .Sa Loo'
ole, who say the telegraph is dia6ollcai al
European artifice. Troops to the NUMBER ol
2UNJh have been ordered to the spot.
No less than eighty-eight persons were eA'
ecuted near Shanghai in one week for beloNs-
fhe Shrn Pto gives the most harro*inS n &c &C
count of floods ut Chu Chou Flu: up the en-.
49,, River Over thousand human beings
have have been swept away aud the destruction OF
growing crops is immense.
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BY direction of the Secretary. of Var
Bricadier General Greely, Chief Signal OH
Ger, will proceed, on or before September ~,
to Toulouse, France, for the purpose OF at
tending the meetings of the meteorological
branch of the French Association for the Ad'
van:ement of the Sciences, to be held at that
place from September 2! to ~, and of obtain
ing information in matters relating to mete-
orological science and work in Europe
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The cotton crop now maturing in the
South promises to be the largest ever
crown in the United States. 1t is estl-
mated at 800, 900 bales-5oo, 600 bales
more than were ever before grown in
single year. Cotton may no longer be
king, but it is still in the royal family.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-17
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
The Cities He Will Visit While South
and West.

and West.
The President said few days ago that he
felt it to bo all absolute necessity that no
should in every case request those cities
which proposed to send delegations
to Washington conveying invitations
to visit them on his Western trip to
forego that formality and forward their com
munications by mail. 1t is probable that he
will leave Washington the last days of Sep
tember and go directly to St. Louis and from S!
there to Kansas City, St Paul, Minneapoas'
Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville and Atlanta
The st. Louis and Atlanta dates
being fixed, it will not be prac-
ticable to deviate much from this pro-
gramme The journey will he made by the
ordinary route of travel between the cities
named, and the disposition of the President
will be to see as much of the country and the
people OH his route as will be consistent with
limited time and positive engagements
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IL the historic parish of Byfeld, near New "
six six Iiviny Wing generations descended from James me
Kent Tie baby hasn't vet been named. The
rreat-rreat-Creat grandmother is ninety-fiye.
The mother of the baby helps out this phe-
nomenal aggregation of generations by bemg
but fifteen years.
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The Railroad Gazette states that 1t is
well-known fact among railroad men that
on railroads running north and south the
west rails wear out the faster; that five
rails will wear out on the west side of the
tract while three are doing service on the
east side.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-17

1t is estimated that the amount OF
money expended on new buildings this
year throughout the Union will be more
than s7OO,oOO,OoO. But for the labor
troubles in the spring much more could
have been invested in building opera
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-17

It is claimed that Franklin and Others
have captured the lightning and har-
messed It in service, but q good deal of it
seems to to be wandering around still in
wild state, doing great deal of dam
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BROOK COUNTY, Georgia, shipped north
this season zoo car loads of watermelons at
an average of more than 500 for each car.
A local paper says the county will receive
howard OF s55, 1000 for her watermelon crop
this year. -..
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South and West.

man and demolished over half the buildings
in town. The estimated damage is 800, ,OOO.
KLEIN, one of the leading spirits of the
Chicago officials. under indictment for feec-
ing the city in various ways, has turned in
former.
AN elevator containing seven girls and one
man fell forty feet at the Bremen Tanning
Works, st. Louis. Alexander NJ. Ferris,
President Of the Company, and one girl were
fatally injured; the other girls were badly
hurt
A FIRE at Cincinnati destroyed the quar-
ter known as "Sloptown." Six acres, con-
tanning twenty shanties and many stables
were burned over. Fifty COWS were burned
to death. The loss is 100000
WILLIAM COOPER (colored was hanged at
Key West, Fla, for the murder Of two
colored neighbors,
ED. MCDONALD, Chicago 'boodler," has
been sentenced to three years in State Prison.
THE Kentucky election has resulted in a
victory for General Buckner, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, together with the
rest of the Democratic State ticket, by a
plurality ranging from q, 900 to &c, 600. The
Republicans made gains in several counties.
In some of the cities, notably Covington, New
port, Bellair and Dayton, the Labor party
polled large vote, carrying the first-named.
Prohibition was defeated in Louisville by q
large majority. The Legislature, which elects
successor to United States Senator Beck, is
heavily Democratic.
EARTHQUAKE shocks have occurred within
few days at st. Louis and Nashville. At the
former place high buildings were shaken.
FIVE Prohibitionists and two Labor men
have leen elected to the Kentucky Legisla-
ture.
In Clay county, KY, on election day there
was fierce fight at the polls during which
six men were killed outright, and number
badly wounded
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Mrs. Nancy EDGERLY, a resident of Wolf
boro, n. H.. has just completed her 1O3d year.
She is feeble in health, but quite vigorous as
regards intellect. She can relate many incl
dents in her early life.
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MATTHEW REvEL died at his residence
near Glen Alter, Ca, one day recently, aged
lO4 years. He had lived with his wife, who
is over ninety, for more than seventy years.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

ROBERT j. ALEXANDER, a veteran OF the
Seminole and Mexican wars, was found dead
in his bed in Brooklyn few days since. he
was seventy eight years old, and had been
in the United States Naval Service nearly
fifty years.
JOSEPH W. DRExEL, the Philadelphia
banker, has presented the cottage at Mount
Gregor, N. Y, in which General Grant died,
to the Grand Army of the Republic.
JOHN EMMERsoN, porter in the Astor
House, New York, stabbed and killed Edward
Greer, young Irishman, who had just OBJ
tained situation as porter in the Bancroft
committed suicide. Jealousy Of chamber
maids attentions to Greer prompted the
crime.
HEAVY rains in portions of Georgia and
South Carolina have done immense damage
to crops. The injury to the corn crop alone
is estimated at $1,OO0,0O0. One-third Of
Augusta, Ga, was flooded, and many
families had to be rescued in boats.
THE Cunard steamship Umbria on her last
trip from England to New York was struck
by tidal wave fifty feet high. This
huge mass of water swept the great vessel
from bow to stern, and flooded everything
below. The passengers made wild rush for
life preservers; but the steamship withstood
VIC OiO" oAA0 PAoS~SASo VA AVA IVY .
PRINCE DEvANBoURGEsE, half brother Of
the King of Siam, and four young sons Of
that potentate arrived in New York few
days ago. Their programme included
q trip to Washington for the purpose
of presenting letters from the King of Siam
to the President, and then journey across
the Continent to take the steamer for home,
via Japan. The royal party have been on q
tour around the world.
WILLIAM WILTSHIRE, Of Camden. N. j.,
ffty-two years old, shot his wife, Ella, aged
forty-seven, deliberately murdered Justice of
the Peace William S. Darr (colored), and then
sent a bullet through his own brain, dying
almost instantly. The tragedy occurred in
the Office of the Justice, who was listening to
d complaint made by Mrs. Wiltshire against
her husbands brutality.
CHARLES H. REED, the Chicago lawyer
who gained considerable notoriJy by defend
ing Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield, has been
going down hill ever since, and shortly after
q recent attempt to steal from Jersey City
restaurant he tried to drown himself, but was
fshed out alive from the Hudson river. He
has been declared insane by New York doc
tors.
A STROKE of lightning killed thirty-two
head of valuable blooded cattle on George
Woodruff's farm at New Britain, Conn.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-01-26
WARM STABLES.
Plain Facts for the Confederation of Own
crs of Milk Cows.

crs of Milk Cows.
Are your stables for your cows warm
and well ventilated, so as to be both
comfortable and sweet? If not, set to
work at once to make them so, for in
this you will find true economy-both
saving of food and an increased pro-
duct, if you are making butter or
cheese, or simply peddling milk. But
do not seek to secure warmth by the
close confinement of your cows. There
must be free circulation of air in
order to secure. the good health of the
COWS and sweet-havored product.
If with good ventilation, letting
the air in at the head Of the
cows and out at the rear, you can
not keep up the required temperature,
then resort to artificial heating. twill
pay. Once the arrangements are made
for heating, the expense will be com.
parativcly small, as higljperature
will not be required. The range Of
temperature for health and comfort is
about fifteen degrees-that is, from
forty-five to sixty degrees Fair. Be
low this. cows standing in the stall will
begin to SILVER and feel uncomfortable
above, discomfort follows and they viii
begin to pant It is much cheaper t.
burn fuel in heater than food in thu
COW to keep up the animal heat
Rural Ne,u Yorker.
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Inventions That Are Needed.

An English scientific journal enum-
crates the following as among the in
ventions which are specially needed at
the present time: Macaroni machinery,
good red-lead pencils, type-writers
that will work on account books and
record books. indelible stamp-cancel-
ing ink, practical car starter. good
railway car ventilator, better horse
shoes, locomotive headlights, an
instrument for measuring the
velocity of wind currents, apparatus for
measuring the depth Of the sea without
sounding by line, piano-lid hinge which
shall be flush on the outside, good fluid
India ink for draughtsmen, a good me-
tallic railway tie, an effective cutoff
for locomotives, method Of alloying
copper and iron, and a molding mate.
rial for iron and brass casting capable
of giving mold that can be used over
and over again. Chicago Inter- Ocean,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-01-26
JACkSON'S LIFE.
Old Hickory's Desperate Fight on the Bor'
ders of Georgia and Tennessee.

Old HicleOry's Desperate Fight on the BOr-
ders of Georgia and Tennessee.
Andrew Jackson's life was literally a
sbattle and a march, From his youth,
in the revolution, to his old age in the
White House, he passed few years with
out fight of some kind on his hands.
War appeared to be his natural element,
and it made little difference to him
whether he was fighting the Indians in
Mississippi, the British in Louisiana, or
Calhoun and the nullifiers, Clay and the
Wings, or Biddle and the banks. He
had no fondness for wine, or ardent
spirits, OR games of chance or skill,
although living among men who spent
much time in such indulgences. He was
interested in horse-racing, however, and
was always ready with the pistol when
1.-THE times were out of joint, and
ugly customers on the warpatll. One
day, not long after the adoption of the
Constitution, there was horse-race on
the borders of Georgia and Tennessee,
between the horses of the respective
States. The Georgia horse won, and
after the race was over the participants
in the sport dined together at a tavern
near the race-course. Jackson, then a
young man, sat next to a stalwart
Georgian. In the course of the dinner,
the former, smarting under the morti-
GaoksD,, of Infonf oI n a Loud
voice: Georgia mighty mean State.
Tennessee's heap BETTER No sooner
were the words out of his mouth
than the stalwart Georgian seized
jackson by the nape of his
neck and the seat of his panta-
looms and threw him clear across the
table. Jackson lit upon his feet like a
cat, and, drawing a pistol, opened fire
upon his opponent. A general scrlm-
mage ensued, which lasted for half al
hour, but, strange to relate, none were
killed or wounded. My informant was
boy at the time, and witnessed the
fight through crack of the door, be.
hind which in his terror he had taker
refuge. He lived to be nearly ninety
| and saw many scrimmages in after
years in that wild country between the
Coosa and the Black Warrior, but thi:
fight at Bob Anderson's Tavern he al
ways regarded as the great event O
his life.--Ben: Perley Poore, IN Bosto,
/ R,Idntof .-.---
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OWNED BY CORPORATIONS.
The Republican Party Comes to Realize
That Its Members Have Turned the
Cold Shoulder TO the Union Soldier in
the Halls of Congress.

Tho Republican Party Comes to Realize
That It's Members Have Turned the
Cold Shoulder TO the Union Soldier in
the Halls of Congress.
Now and then the esteemed Register
gets to be an extremely interesting
organ. This is more apt to be the case
when it strikes ut somebody else's
party and hits its own. II does SO in
the following editorial, which we copy
entire, except the headline, and which
betrays in a striking way the Rep,lb-
lican party's overweening love for the
soldier. Please remember, in reading
it, that the Republicans have a major
ity in the United States Senate, and
have had nearly all the time since the
war:
The Iowa Stats Zeituag well says: Colonel
d. b. Henderson, of Iowa. is the heir to John
A. Logan's fame as invincible champion of the
soldiers interests in Washington. The man.
tie falls on worthy shoulders, and will be worn by
a man whose heart is as true as steel" This
is well said. General Hawley will soon be the
only Union General left in the Senate, if Gen
eral Harrison is not reelected, and Colonel
Henderson will stand first in the new Congress
as the stronger and most devoted champion of
the Union soldiers. He has the strength Of
heart and ability for the trust. The South
keeps its great rebel Generals in Congress. Let
it be hoped that the people of the North, in
their election Of United States Senators this
winter, will reinforce the strength Of the Union
soldiers in Congress. Not even one OF the
States of the great West has Union soldier
~, vv,;1lv,o ~ hor,o Of Cav,
cral Harrison rctires. In this keeping the faith
of the West with the half million of its sons
who went into the Union army! Is this the color
of union blue to be retired from Congress, when
| the color of the rebel gray is constantly be-
| ing increased there: viii not some Western
| State. this winter, send Union soldier to
stand in the United States Senate for the Union
| side?
Think Of it. Forty Republicans in
| the United States Senate and only two
of them Union soldiers. And these
two from States that go Democratic in
Presidential elections. Oh, how the
dear old party does love the dear
soldier. Soon there will be only one
soldier Senator out of thirty-eight
Republicans. All, what devoted affec-
ton this is. The soldiers do the voting,
but the railroads get the Senators.
And it has just dawned on our es-
teemed contemporary. How deeply
interested in the soldiers welfare il
must be not to have noticed SO striking
a fact long ago.
We are glad to help our esteemed
contemporary to place itself and its
party on record. 1t offers no excuse
for its party's neglect Of the soldier
1t simply states the fact. We quoted
all its words. Not even one of tn,
great Western States has a Uniol
soldier in the Senate The Senate il
recognized by the Republican part.
as belonging to the railroads, not t.
the soldiers. Moi,ees Leatler.
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one, for when the battery went into ac-
ton, with the thirty-six horses and the
six guns, he always stuck the pike to
which the guidon was attached firmly
into the ground, to mark the line of
battle, where the battery was to form
and go into action, and even if the man
who rode the leading horse was killed
or disabled, and the din OF the
battle was SO great that the bugle
call could not be heard, the horses
were so we'll drilled that they would
wheel around the flag, make or execute
the maneuver known as ''by left into
line and when the muzzles of the six
guns were on line with the flag, and
then, as soon as the guns were unlim-
bered, he would again place it, about
two hundred PAGES to the rear, and the
horses would gallop to the rear, with
the caissons, and halt again on line
with it. Perhaps there is not much
sentiment in the mending of that old
flag by the battery boy, but is there not
beautiful sentiment in the thought of
those noble horses, doing their share of
the fighting, side by side with us, learn
ing to know the flag and rallying upon
it?
In conclusion, will draw attention
to the most glorious of all flags. the
banner of the red cross. An interna-
tional public conference was called at
Geneva, Switzerland, in 1868. At this
time treaty was drawn up and signed
by representatives of twenty-five differ
ent governments, which provided for
the neutrality of all sanitary sup
plies, ambulances, surgeons, nurses,
attendants, sick or wounded men,
and their safe conduct when they
bear the banner of the red cross.
Largely through the influence and per-
severance of Miss Clara Barton, oul
Government was induced, eventually,
to instruct its proper representative tc
sign the treaty. AS a compliment te
Switzerland, the association adopted as
its banner the color of the Swiss flag,
reversed, the red cross on a white
ground. This flag is held sacred by all
civilized nations of the world. In the
fiercest battle no shot is ever aimed al
this symbol. 1t protects alike castle
or cottage, friend or foe. 1t insures
| safe conduct to all transports to III
enemy's country. Under this banner
social distinctions are abolished. Tit
proudest rulers of the kingdoms of thu
earth bow with respect and submission
to this banner-the universal repre-
sentative of mans humanity to mai
and the harbinger of the time when al
nations shall '.beat the swords int
plow-shares and their spears into prun
ing-hooks, and learn war no more. y
| CHICAGO Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-01-26
BALLAD OF THE BEGGAR,

The starlings fly in the windy sky,
The rabbits run out Arrow,
The pheasants stalk in the stubble dry
AS tramp through the evenglow--
As tramp, tramp and grow
More weary with every stride,
And think. as the riders come and GO
If had horse to ride
The farmer trots by on his roadster high,
The squire on his pony low,
Young miss sweeps out from the park gate nigh
And cantcrs away with her beau.
They are proud Of themselves-oh, no.
But couldn't deal in pride,
And couldn't T. too, cut a dash and show,
If had q horse to ride?
The farmer is four times as fat as I;
The squire he is blind and slow;
Young miss has not nearly SO bright an eye
AS Bess at the BARLEY Now.
All. wouldn't cry "Gee-hup, gee-ho,'
And wouldn't bang his side,
Ab, wouldn't teach him to gallop it, though,
If had horse to ride.
ENVOY.
II was only a beggar that grumbled so,
As his blistered feet he piled;
But the cry is cry that all of us know
If Ihad horse to ride!
-Wide d1CdEe.